Getting a gig The struggle of the freelancer is about getting the next gig. I don’t think that’s a struggle at all. That’s the work. That puts the ‘free’ in the freelancer. If someone else is getting you the gigs, then you have a job, you are not a freelancer.
Missing a day. Whether it is your writing, your diet or anything else. It is imminent that you may miss a day. You may eat a cookie when tempted, you may forget to write your blog, you may be too busy to read. The way to handle a missed day is to ignore
Rethinking money. Money is a game that we have to play. That’s the currency. Doesn’t matter if you are in a corporate job or you are pursuing your ‘passion’. What we need to understand is that thinking about money doesn’t solve our money problem. It mostly compounds it. If
Reaching the right people. To reach the right people, you need to reach to a lot of people. And most of those people would be the wrong people. But in that crowd of No’s, there will be tiny hand raised that will say Yes or May be. That’s who this is for.
"I'm still deciding." This is the most persistent mode of Resistance. We don’t act because we are still deciding. And this can go on for years, if not decades, if not your entire life. Stop deciding and find the action that you need to take. Take that action and that action will
Momentum... When we go down into ResistanceLand, we keep losing ourselves one action at a time. We feel we are in control, we feel that we can get back any time. We do not understand that the journey back is uphill and it is going to take a lot of effort
Understanding fear... Our work is about throwing. The catching will take care of itself. The way to get over fear is to create insulation. Make each and every thing irrelevant by duplicity. That creates abundance. Abundance of money, love, belonging, creativity. Zig Ziglar says that desperate selling happens when we are not
Going beyond the expected... When was the last time someone did something for you that was beyond expectation? It doesn’t take a lot more. It’s not about the cost or the time. It’s about making the interaction human. It’s about respect and empathy. It’s about emotional labour of appreciating
The fear of changing the status quo... Fear makes us stick to the status quo… The same weight, the same job, the same relationship status. It stops us from taking action that could actually change things for us for the better. The way to counter the fear is to become very specific about the action and break
Doing the hard task first. The hard task is hard because it is made up of multiple easy tasks. The key here is to identify the first microtask and get done with that. Then the next, then the next. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with
Showing up consistently. The biggest challenge in showing up consistently is the expectation of the outcome. If we don’t show up, we are comfortable with the fact that there will be no positive outcome. But if we showed up, then we feel bad if we do not get an outcome. This obsession
Podcast Interview - Scott Perry Head Coach at Seth Godin’s Creative’s Workshop https://anchor.fm/curiouspassionately/episodes/8–Interview—Scott-Perry—Head-Coach-at-Seth-Godins-Akimbos-Creative-Workshop-and-Freelancer-Workshop-e17un41
Don't lunge for the ball. Stop reacting to outcomes and exceptions. Seth Godin talks about learning how to juggle in his book The Practice. Keep practising the throws. If the throws are consistent, the catching will take care of itself. More often than not, Resistance uses our tendency to make an exception to throw us
hygiene and motivation factors absence of hygiene factors oxygen, water, food, money, sex… These are all hygiene factors and they all have their time factor. How many seconds or minutes or days you can survive without them? Oxygen is the absolute extreme and hence it can help us understand the dynamics of the hygiene
Systems. We need systems. For money, for health, for work, for fun. Without systems, we let the last minute mind run everything. And there are a lot of tools out there to manipulate the last minute mind. Today, more than ever, we need to create systems that can help us become
Getting specific about what you want. It’s not going to be easy, because we have been trained against it for years. But this is one of the most important steps towards a better life. Because when we get specific about what we want, we can identify specific actions that can take us there. And by
Carrying things around. Many times we carry stuff around just because we are used to carrying it. Letting it go means that we have to take a decision, we have to change the status quo. But if we want to climb a mountain, it makes sense to pack your backpack mindfully. Let go
Ambition Do we understand ambition? The beauty of it. Ambition is not about fitting in, not about getting the next promotion. Ambition is about generosity. About making change. About doing it again, and again. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with your
Priority. There are certain things that you can’t take your eyes off. Money and health are two of those. The moment you take your eyes off them, they start creating problems. It’s important to prioritise money and health much before they become an emergency. — If you liked reading this,
Petty distractions When we leave our seat, when we open another tab, when we browse through our phone, we create space for petty distractions. They seem harmless at first. We feel we are in control. We can always go back to the work. We can sit back down. We will go back
Being a professional Everything has a choice. A choice of professional or amateur. There is a dress code for the professional. A time of starting work and a time for ending work. When the work hours are done, the professional does not think about the work. She moves on. — If you liked reading
getting back up. If you are an athlete, you will fall. If you are a dancer, you will fall. If you are a writer, you will fall. If you are creative, you will fall. If you are human, you will fall. It’s not about not falling, it’s about getting back up.
Surrendering to the teacher That’s the key to growth.. When we surrender to the teacher, we take the power away from the force of self-sabotage within us. We start trusting a higher power. A coach who is invested in us, in our career, in our body, in her field if experience. If you
Effortless is more effective. There are two ways to get anything done. One involves struggle and the other involves courage. It takes courage to take the effortless path. It takes courage to not be busy. When we are busy, we are not necessarily productive. Tiring yourself out every day is not a good way
more… You can always be more… More generous… More kind… More relaxed… More you… The thing with infinity is that there is always more.
